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Be the incredible devastating rainfall. >> sandra: perhaps a more critical part of that story. bill is on the ground in wilmington and has a question for you. >> bill: yeah. just two things i would observe, janice. the way the wind changes. it was due north for so long and now it seems to be coming from various directions. over the past three hours the way the temperature drops. it is significant. its no longer that humid air anymore. what explains that when you see the temperature fall the way ...

Virginia and south carolina and someone has a bulls-eye of 40 inches. that is for sure. flash flood warnings, the worst of the storm in the northeast quadrant where we have the worst of the storm surge, all that ocean water pushed against the shore and they will see the offshore flow. willington will see strong gusts in the next matter of hours in the center of the storm is right there. we are an hour or two from official landfall but the strongest winds coming on sure right now, some of these w...

The winds dealing with the friction. you can just imagine what areas near open bayous of water are dealing with that onshore or offshore wind. lately it had been offshore. and we had incredible footage earlier. i think that was the talk of the town. pretty much tampa bay draining out because of the offshore flow. and that happened well in advance of any of the strong winds moving in. the winds have really been picking up here over the past couple of hours there is a curfew in the city of tampa. ...

Going to be dealing with this into tuesday and remnant low and sits and spins across the tennessee river valley. there is the radar right now. you can see the core of the strongest winds right here. then we also have the offshore flow. so tampa you are still going to get the potential for heavy rain and that storm surge moving. in it wont be the incredible storm surge amounts that we were predicting yesterday. but, still, very vulnerable coast line and the potential for, you know, water levels t...

>> looks like its continuing about what we expected. this system is just offshore marco island, naples area. were seeing the very high winds, reports up to 130 miles per hour, so were seeing the high winds. we havent seen the high storm surge yet, but we feel thats coming soon. >> do you have any reports along the coastline of how quickly the water is coming in? some of the canals in places like marco island have been drained prior to the surge. >> yeah, i havent seen any reports yet. we did get...

The 6 magnitude range so certainly this area is going to remain very active seismicwise as we go through the next year. lets talk about the weather. actually dealing with dry conditions. thats good. ridge of high pressure. its going to be weakening. light showers working in down towards the south but for fukushima as well as sendai this area will stay dry and the winds offshore and that will be favorable as we go through the next several days. i want to point out. heres the proof. theres that of...

Government aircraft entering the u.s. has tested positive for radiation. >> the winds are eventually going to blow whatever is over the atmosphere in japan closer to the united states. >> right. >> and when we talked to some scientists they said the amount of radiation in any clouds that come over is going to be vastly reduced by the time it comes over here but it is certainly scary and jennifer delgado is in the weather center with more on when the clouds may make their way over here. >> i want...

Jennifer delgado is in the weather center with details. obviously theyre going to test when it happens to see how big of a threat it is but a lot of people are scared. >> a lot are people are worried. first of all we want to talk about whats happening with japan. winds are coming out of the northwest, thats an offshore flow, great news, helping to mix the radiation, the particles and the lower levels. friday into saturday its going to be offshore. now as i take you over, i want to go to the othe...

Reporting the radioactive particles likely be dispersed and the actual radiation a fraction of what a chest x-ray would be by the time it reaches u.s. shores. >> absolutely. the wind environment is quite favorable. were dealing with the winds coming out of the northwest and this is an improvement what we saw two days ago. here is the proof for you. as we go through thursday, as well as friday, we are going to be dealing with an offshore flow. now, i want to take you over to this graphic right he...

Talking about 1,000 millisieverts. it seems he may have been misspoke and should have said microsievert. that changes the situation dramatically. it seems as if he misspoke. thats an indication, michael, of how rapidly this information is flowing. how rapidly the events are changing. when you get misspeaking like that, when you get confusion like that, that creates a lot of more unease and concern. >> talk a little bit more about that. its interesting, in a situation like this, of course, inform...